1881.] 
C. J. Lyall —Translations from the Hamdseh. 
113 
Notes. 
The first form of the Taivil , as in No. YI. 
One would gladly know the author of these passionate lines: but too 
many of the fragments in this Book of the Hamaseh (No. IV, “Love 
pieces,”) are anonymous. It seems probable that he lived in the days of 
paganism, although, as just mentioned (Notes to No. XVII), the supersti¬ 
tion to which reference is made in v. 1 was by no means extinct under 
el-Islam. The translation is as nearly as possible word for word. 
v. 1. See note to v. 2 of No. XVII. Here the poet, looking forward 
to his own death of love for Leyla, prays that his owl’s thirst may be 
appeased by her blood. 
v. 3. The play upon ghind ,“ wealth,” “ strength,” and faqr, “ poverty, 
lacking,” is difficult to render in English. 
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Abu AaJrfir el-TIudtali. 
By Him who brings weeping and laughter, 
Who deals Death and Life as He wills—- 
She left me to envy the wild deer 
that graze twain and twain without fear ! 
O Love of her, heighten my hearths pain, 
and strengthen the pang every night! 
O Comfort that days bring, forgetting—• 
the Last of all days be thy tryst! 
I marvelled how busy the World wrought 
to sunder us whiles we were one : 
But when that which bound us was broken, 
then did the World rest, his work done. 
Ham. jo. 544. 
